PSY 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Base Rate Fallacy, Pluralistic Ignorance, Social Cognition
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Some participants were given as much time as they wanted to make each rating, and their trait judgments were used as the gold standard of comparison the most telling impressions an individual could form based solely on photographs. Other participants were also asked to rate the photos but after seeing each face for only a second, half of a second, or tenth of a second. As it turned out, hurried trait judgments corresponded remarkably well with the more re ective assessments. A great deal about what we conclude about people based on their faces is determined almost instanttaneously. Misleading firsthand information: pluralistic ignorance: some of the rsthand information we acquire about people is inaccurate because its intended to be. The researchers predicted that people might worry that someone from another ethnic group would not be interested in talking to them. Initialing conversation would therefore seem risky, something they might want to avoid out of fear of being rejected.
